Adopt-a-Cemetery

Welcome to Village Memorial’s Adopt-A-Cemetery Program
Looking for a way to contribute in your community? A cemetery is where we remember those who have passed before us, but many are in need of our help.

The Adopt-A-Cemetery program encourages volunteering and enhances historic memorial parks and cemeteries individuals, organizations, or businesses can make a difference by helping maintain sections of under funded historic cemeteries and memorial parks.

Maintenance & Beautification Volunteers participate in Perpetual Care:

• Litter removal
• Grass Mowing
• Weed Digging
• Flower Trimming
• Tree Planting
• Soding & seeding
• Stone cleaning – Headstones, monuments, etc.
• Removing graffiti
• Clean our dingy old fountains and ponds
• Cutting back overgrown vegetation
• Planting native plantings where appropriate
• Cemetery Resident Documentation
• General Maintenance
• Sprinkler repair
• Debris Removal
• Resetting toppled headstones
• Straightening tombstones
• Repairing Cracked Concrete
• Polishing plaques

Help Document
Grave Rubbings & tomb stone photographic documentation are great ways to record preserve local history for generations to come.

Give Guided Tours? Volunteer to give a walking tours. Learn your local history and share the fascinating history with others.

Play Music Play music in the courtyard on for visitors on holidays and special memorial events.

Register Today
Volunteers & groups interested in pledging to keep their local cemetery clean can be listed as "Friends of the Adopt-a-Cemetery" Program on our site.
Contact Village Memorial

Safety If you see potential hazards while volunteering, stop working and communicate these with cemetery staff. Do not resume assistance until the issue has been resolved.

Coming Soon Grave Tending Workshops

Free Booklet Village Memorial’s Guide to Cemetery Grounds Maintenance.

Grave Tending History

• Chinese Holiday - Grave Sweeping Day
• Memorial Day flag & Flowering

If you are a cemetery and would like to be listed as a cemetery seeking to be listed on our site please Contact Village Memorial

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